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More than 20 million Americans have cast absentee ballots or voted in-person ahead of the 2022 midterms, according to researchers in an update on Sunday morning.
Some 12.5 million have cast mail-in ballots while nearly 8 million have voted early and in-person, data from the University of Florida’s Election Project shows. The project compiles voting data for states that report early voting
Florida, California, Georgia, and Texas lead the way with more than 2 million votes cast apiece. A number of states last week opened their early voting phase, while New York state and New Jersey began their early voting phases on Saturday.
Michael Bitzer, a professor at Catawba College in North Carolina who was described as an expert in early voting patterns, told Politico on Saturday that the greater turnout of early voting doesn’t reflect a shift in the electorate. That article, citing Democratic analysts, asserted that young people are not turning out in large enough numbers for Democrats....